8-letter words containing gra
- grasping — greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
- grass up — to inform on (someone), esp to the police
- grassers — Plural form of grasser.
- grassier — Comparative form of grassy.
- grassily — in a grassy manner
- grassing — any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains. Compare grass family.
- grassman — Hermann Günther [her-mahn gyn-tuh r] /ˈhɛr mɑn ˈgün tər/ (Show IPA), 1809–77, German mathematician and linguist.
- grateful — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- gratinee — to cook (food) au gratin
- gratings — Plural form of grating.
- gratious — Obsolete form of gracious.
- grattoir — a flaked stone implement, usually Upper Paleolithic, retouched at the end and used probably for working wood or cleaning hides; scraper.
- gratuity — a gift of money, over and above payment due for service, as to a waiter or bellhop; tip.
- gravamen — the part of an accusation that weighs most heavily against the accused; the substantial part of a charge or complaint.
- graveled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gravelly — of, like, or abounding in gravel.
- gravidae — a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.
- gravidas — Plural form of gravida.
- gravitas — seriousness or sobriety, as of conduct or speech.
- gravitic — Of or pertaining to gravity. (Archaic/rare, gravitational is more common, still seen though in compounds like magnetogravitic.).
- graviton — the theoretical quantum of gravitation, usually assumed to be an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle and that has zero rest mass and charge and a spin of two.
- gray fox — a fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, ranging from Central America through the southwestern and eastern U.S., having blackish-gray upper parts and rusty-yellowish feet, legs, and ears.
- gray hat — a hacker who violates the security of a system without true malicious intent but often without the prior knowledge or consent of the owner or developer, and who later reports system vulnerabilities to the authorities, sometimes for personal profit.
- gray jay — a gray jay, Perisoreus canadensis, of northern North America, noted for its boldness in stealing food from houses, traps, camps, etc.
- gray urn — a smooth, urn-shaped edible mushroom, Urnula craterium, commonly found in North America on fallen hardwood.
- grayback — any of various marine and aquatic animals that are dark gray above and light-colored or white below, as the gray whale, the alewife, certain whitefish, and certain sandpipers.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- grayling — any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus, related to the trouts but having a longer and higher, brilliantly colored dorsal fin.
- graymail — a means of preventing prosecution, as for espionage, by threatening to disclose government secrets during trial.
- grayness — of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- grazable — Suitable for grazing by animals.
- graziers — Plural form of grazier.
- grazioso — graceful; flowing.
- hemogram — a graphic record of the cellular elements of the blood.
- hexagram — a six-pointed starlike figure formed of two equilateral triangles placed concentrically with each side of a triangle parallel to a side of the other and on opposite sides of the center.
- hologram — a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
- ideogram — a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- idiogram — Karyogram.
- in-grain — to implant or fix deeply and firmly, as in the nature or mind.
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- ingrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingrain.
- ingrates — Plural form of ingrate.
- integral — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- isograft — syngraft.
- isograms — Plural form of isogram.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
- kilogray — one thousand grays
- kymogram — the graphic record produced by a diagnostic kymograph.
- lagrange — Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), Comte, 1736–1813, French mathematician and astronomer.